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...author is not without a sense of humor. At one point he defines the "Four F's of Fighting" as "FIND 'EM, FIX 'EM, FIGHT 'EM, and FINISH 'EM!" The sly absence of the obvious "Fifth F" is highly amusing...
...Warning. The long debate served to fix government responsibility, or the lack of it, and illustrated the odd nature of the British security system, compounded of shrewdness, inefficiency, and an often misguided sense of sportsmanship that goes to extraordinary lengths in protecting members of the club. The case, as it emerged from the debate, falls into four phases...
...Charade. What happened was a charade. It went off with such precision, such inevitability, that some observers, aware of Bobby Kennedy's propensity for manipulation, suspected a fix. The Justice Department vehemently denied any deal with Wallace, but there was at least an unspoken arrangement. Both sides knew that the Negroes would eventually be enrolled in the university. The feds were willing to let Wallace put up his farcical show-for a while. Wallace wanted to avoid a long stretch in jail-and the Administration, bent on stirring up as little political resentment as possible in the South, desperately...
Mickey is preparing to return as Mike Hammer in a sequel to The Girl Hunters called The Snake. Since he is the bestselling mystery writer of all time, he is clearly just doing it for a sort of psychic fix. "Ian Fleming?" he says. "I don't worry about him. He's a gourmet...
...Psychic Fix. Mickey, in fact, did everything for real. Every Mike Hammer story has a blonde viking in it. The one in this picture is Britain's Shirley Eaton, a tall taffy goddess like the girl Hammer once shot in the navel. She wears onionskin bikinis. In the first take of a passionate scene, Mickey and Shirley were stretched out on a couch when something went wrong with the lighting. "Cut," said the director. Not Mickey. "We stayed there rehearsing for an hour while they changed the lights," he remembers. "That was Method acting, boy. The Spillane method...